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Although most visitors to the new Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, will approach it from the side facing downtown, that's actually the rear of the building. The glass-walled main entry is on the other side, facing south across the banks of the Ohio River. The center turns its face in that direction for good reason. The river is at the heart of the story it will tell. In the mid-19th century, those waters were a fateful dividing line. Separating free-soil Ohio from slave-owning Kentucky, they were a desperate crossing point for runaway slaves...
...Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days, not the far more customary story of white oppression. "The story of the Underground Railroad allows you to talk about slavery in a way that...
DIED. ALBERT CASEY, 84, former American Airlines CEO; in Dallas. After working in the railroad industry and as head of the Times Mirror media company, he took over American in 1974, when airlines faced deregulation, climbing debt and higher fuel prices. When he left the company 10 years later, annual profits stood at $228 million...
...Jong Il's propaganda machine. They work in studios that turn out government-commissioned works in government-approved styles. The most famous studio is Mansudae in Pyongyang, a huge enterprise employing hundreds of artists, but studios are also maintained by regional and municipal authorities-and even the state railroad company. The artists work regular hours, are expected to produce a stipulated quota of works, and are sometimes enlisted in "speed-war" contests that test their ability to pump out patriotic art in volume. Depending on seniority and productivity, an artist can rise from the ranks of "merit artist" to "people...
...fashioned a case against capital punishment by assembling interviews with former death-row inmates exonerated of their crimes. In The Permanent Way, a hit at London's National Theatre this winter, David Hare created what is likely to be the only good play ever written about the British railroad system, drawn from the words of public officials, ordinary riders and family members of those killed in crashes. The hot ticket in London at the moment is Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,' an indictment of the treatment of imprisoned terrorist suspects, culled from the words of detainees, lawyers and public...